DIE HARD (1988) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
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0:00 Intro
2:29 Reaction
29:42 Review/Outro
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“That’s a lot of glass for his feeties.” (2 sec later) “Why are they shooting the glass?” 😂😂😂
I remember when this movie first came out, nobody thought Bruce Willis could do an action movie, because up until then, he was mainly known for comedy, and most of the other action stars at the time were huge bodybuilder types. Now here we are over thirty years later remembering this as one of the greatest action movies of all time.
"This movie looks cool, but it has the guy from Moonlighting in it"- most people in 1988
@@bluebird3281 😄
The critics made the same issue about Michael Keaton as Batman. This is why I don’t judge actor choices for roles as long as the studios aren’t doing it just to be woke.
Facts! I’ve told people imagine Simon Helberg (from Big Bang Theory) playing a tough as nails cop in an action movie. They basically what it was like.
@@EclecticSundries 😄
"Now I have a machine gun.... Ho Ho Ho"
Doesn't get more "Christmasie" than that.
The scriptwriter says it's a Christmas movie, so it's a Christmas movie.
That’s good enough for me!
Definitely a Christmas movie 👍
Not what the writer said,...At All. It's sad when people use lies to make their "point". LOL
Whether or not that's true is moot. When you produce art for the public, It's ultimately up to the general public's opinion.. There are many producers and many more artists who are happy to let the public decide how to interpret their work.
That being said, there's no doubt it's a Christmas movie. It's not even a conversation anymore.
This was Alan Rickman’s first movie role and of course, being Alan Rickman, he fucking nails it.
Also, the reaction Gruber makes when he falls at the end is one of the best reactions ever, simply because it was real. They had told Rickman that they were going to count to three and then drop him, but they just said ‘one’ and then dropped him, so you can see it on Rickman’s face that he’s thinking ‘You bastards!’.
"Busted" 1983
Alan Rickman really nails this one and bats it out of the park. This has been classed as one of the greatest if not the best Villain characters in films as Alan portrays him. He is highly amazing. There is depth to him and the cinematography, the way the camera works with him, gives him that sense of cold authority and cold calculated bad guy, so many remember very fondly. Also Great writing helps.
I thought January Man came before this one?
@@Hiraghm I checked Google and found out that Die Hard came first.
I guess it's possible that he did January Man first, but Die Hard was released before it.
@@ronfehr7899 Most likely it was that way. Same thing happened with Matt Damion with Saving Private Ryan. He was cast to be an unknown for it.. but Good Will Hunting released beforehand and put him on the map lol.
"He's gonnae _DIE HARD_ when he hits the ground." is why Dawn is the best
The candy bar grabber, Uli, was played by Al Leong. He was more of a stuntman, but he was a staple of 1980s and early 90s action movie and TV. He was in EVERYTHING.
You cannot imagine the cheer that went up in the theater (During the original run) when Holly punches the reporter.
Also, the groans when he's running across the glass. 😖
The punch is awesome, but I love his "Did you get that?" to the cameraman.
I worked at a theater showing it back in the day, and you better believe people lost their shit!!!
Good thing she didn’t kick him between the legs cause the reporter has no d#%k.
@@STNeish the script is a masterpiece in every way
I missed the original in the theater but I caught the second one. Pretty cool, I must say. Everyone got a kick out of Bonnie's line, "Why does this keep happening to us?"
the director put the naked lady poster in the elevator shaft to let the audience know and keep track of how little room John has in the elevator shafts that he has to keep going back and forth through the SAME catwalk. It adds to the feeling of claustrophobia and feeling trapped, if you think "oh man, they're right behind him shooting and john is right back where he started."
Fun fact: The look on Alan Rickman's face when Hans falls off the building is genuine, since he was attached to a harness and they were going to count to three and release on "three" but they instead decided at the last minute to release on "two".
"This doesn't look like a Christmas movie, it looks like an action movie". It can be both. Just like you can have a Comedy Christmas movie, or a Romance Christmas movie.
I wish I could erase my mind temporarily so I can rewatch this again for the first time.
They just don't make movies like in the 80s these days.
The phrase "die hard" or "diehard" was used as an adjective to mean someone who was fanatically devoted to a cause or position, like a diehard fan or a diehard conservative. The store Sears used the word as a brand name for their car batteries, Diehard. Here, the title refers to John's refusal to die.
There's even a Christmas miracle at the end like with Tiny Tim: the LA cop can shoot people again.
I watch this film in a theatre with my girlfriend. The two of us passed the next days talking about it with all our friends. They went to watch the film too, and then they spent the next days telling all their friends to watch it, and so on
If Die Hard is on, we must be close to Christmas!
Bruce Willis is my favourite actor. He always defeats bad guys, but wasn't able to defeat his disease. Unfortunately, life is not a movie 😔
It isn't Christmas in my house until Hans Gruber is THROWN out of the Nakatomi Building. 😎 🎄
Fun Fact: Alan Rickman nearly passed up the role of Hans Gruber, which ended up being his first film role. He had only arrived in Hollywood two days earlier and was appalled by the idea of his first role being the villain in an action film. To a degree, Rickman was right to be concerned considering his performance as Hans Gruber was so hailed that the actor had to struggle being typecast as a player of villains for much of his career.
First Face-Off Fact: The scene in which Gruber and McClane meet fir the first time was inserted into the script after Alan Rickman (Hans Gruber) was found to be proficient at mimicking American accents. The filmmakers had been looking for a way to have the two characters meet prior to the climax and capitalized on Rickman's talent.
Making Lemonade Fact: The scene where McClane falls down a shaft was a mistake by the stuntman, who was supposed to grab the first vent, as it originally was planned. He slipped and continued to fall, but the shot was used anyway; it was edited together with one where McClane grabs the next vent down as he falls.
Another fun fact: At the time, Bruce Willis was only known for comedic or romantic roles, such as his long run on _Moonlighting._ The producers of this were skeptical that he could pull off an action hero. Of course afterwards they were patting themselves on the back for how clever they were all the way to the bank.
The best Christmas movie of all time.
It wouldn't be Christmas season without Hans Gruber dropping off the Nakatomi building.
For the falling scene, they told Rickman they would count 3...2...1...GO. Then they let him go after "3". So his shocked face was genuine.
Actually it was at "2" I heard-one second Early!! That's why there's such a surprised look on his face.
"It's not Christmas until the Gruber falls!"
It was a huge setup in role for Bruce Willis. He went form a TV comedy called moonlighting to an action movie star with this single role.
So did Chris Pratt...
@@StarkRG Chris Pratt wasn't in Moonlighting, I would have remembered him!
I love love love watching this movie for the 100th time with someone who's never seen it before.
Thanks for the perfect reactions Dawn, I'm so happy you liked my favorite movie 💕
The driver who got his lights knocked out just passed away last week. He was in a humorous reunion with Bruce Willis in a Die Hard battery super bowl commercial.
The first Lethal Weapon film was also set around Christmas so could also be considered a Christmas movie same goes for Gremlins.
"That's a lot of glass for his poor feeties."
literally seconds later:
"Why are they shooting the glass?"
As I recall, American audiences noted that was a bad accent coming out of Hans, something Brits and Europeans did not seem to notice.
See, she gets it. It isn't just an action movie that takes place at Christmas. It has the themes of family, togetherness, forgiveness, and redemption. If the fact that it involves violently stopping criminals automatically undoes the Christmas Spirit, then Home Alone isn't a Christmas movie either.
There's two types of people: those who think Die Hard is a Christmas movie and those who are wrong.
Good reaction, Dawn. The long-haired blond guy was a Russian principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. I was onstage with him and Mikhail Baryshnikov for ten performances of Swan Lake back in the early ‘80s. Among other things, I poured a glass of wine for him onstage. He was in a relationship with Jacqueline Bisset until he drank himself to death.
A saw a parody of this film on stage once where they made use of this fact. They had that character wear white tights and do ballet leaps whenever he crossed the stage (as well as do other ballet-related things). 🙈
Holy crap, that took a dark turn in the last sentence
I don't wanna make you sad right before Christmas, but the IT guy in this movie is named Clarence Gilyard. He actually died a couple of weeks ago and he's had an amazing career. And "the quarterback is toast!" is way high on my list of one-liners from action movies. A couple of spots below "Get to the choppah!"
Someone's bound to have already mentioned this, but I don't read all the comments.
"you didn't bring me along for my charming personality"
When Hans asks Theo if he is able to crack the safe🥲
“Merry Christmas Hans” - “He’s gonna die hard when he hits the ground hard”. I’ve said it before, I don’t think I want to be on Dawn’s bad side.
Also, evidently it is a Christmas movie because it “ is at Christmas time, has Christmas music, and romance, and love, and FIGHTING, And everyone coming together to save the day.” AWESOME!
"Argyle", the unsung hero.
De’voreaux White who played Argyle played a guitar thief from The Blues Brothers (1980).
@@StephenLuke A lot of the actors in this film are seen in a few other great films. There are two bond villains, one from "The Living Daylight", and one from "License To Kill". One of Bond's C.I.A. allies from "License To Kill".
There are at least three Ghostbusters alum, one actor in the first "Ghostbusters", and two from the second film. "Mr. Winslow" from "Family Matter", one of my all time favorite shows as a kid (I was born in the early 80s). "Professor Snape", obviously. "The Bull", if you will, from "Breakfast Club". The psychologist trying to figure out what's going on in Rigg's head, "Lethal Weapon" series.
Several more, but I'll leave it to you and others to look up who's who. But this movie had so much talent in it. Some lasting, some fleeting. At the time though all made a great movie together.
And a special shot out to "Theo", Clarence Gilyard, who passed away just last month. He was a familiar face both on t.v. and in movies throughout the 80s/90s.
Yep it's a Christmas movie. Because when you really look at the big picture, this is the true meaning of Christmas.
A relationship repaired, making a new friend and being loved.
Forget the haters. This movie has a deep inner message that most, who don't view it as such. They only see it as an action movie but there was so much involved in the movie.
Christmas Eve, Christmas party, songs and so much.
Those who say this is not a Christmas movie, why didn't they play NORMAL music just as the credits were rolling?
The biggest argument is this: it HAS to be Xmas Eve for Hans’s plan to work. A Xmas party with everyone on the same floor and all but 2 security guards given the night off. Any other night of the year and there’s probably 2 guards on every floor, especially on the floor with the vault that contains $600m.
@@CoffeeMatt10 it was a high security vault and the building was new too. First year of construction. And would it matter anyway? They killed the men at the front entrance too
Movie went from being a romance to people realizing it was a bromance... between John McLean and Reggie Veljohnson's character, Al Powell.
"Yippee ki yay motherf****r!" One of the best lines ever.
I became a Die Hard fan on December 2018, after I started to collect a lot of movies on DVD on December 26, 2018, and I'm still working on collecting them.
And I'm counting Die Hard (1988) a Christmas movie and I still love it!
DVD? Are you being serious?
@@prltqdf9 Yes, and I'm not kidding, I'm nostalgic.
This is such a beautiful love story of two people making a lifelong, deep-soul connection. And one of them also fixed his relationship with his wife.
A few years before this, he was broke, homeless, and answering acting callbacks on a payphone!! Then he got the amazing btv show, Moonlighting! Check out some episodes, here. It's a throwback to Cary grant scripts, written in the 40s-50s!!
"He could a bartender for all we know!" Bruce Willis was a bartender. In joke.
The line the one cop says about how McLane “could be a bartender, for all we know!” is a neat little reference to the fact that Bruce Willis was a bartender before being cast in his breakout role in the tv series “Moonlighting,” which was fantastic in its first season then went downhill rapidly. I still remember the show’s Shakespeare homage episode fondly.
The Shakespeare episode was brilliant. Highly recommended.
"Atomic Shakespeare"!
Try searching for it on YOUr favorite TUBE streaming service for a blast from the past.
I used to frequent the bar he worked at in NYC. YES, he served me drinks. Who knew? I'd have left bigger tips.
You were watching the cop walk out of the convenient store and potentially noticing the gunfire, I was looking at the $.74 gasoline.
"That's a lot of glass for his poor feeties".
Possibly the cutest thing ever said about this movie.
Of course this is a Christmas movie. Christmas just isn't Christmas until I've seen Hans Gruber fall from the top of Nakatomi Plaza. 😅
if “Die Hard” is Christmas then so is “Gremlins”
16:49 This is what we call _'foreshadowing.'_ 🤣
what makes is a Christmas movie 1.christmas eve 2.christmas music 3.christmas tree 4.christmas decor
A blast watching this with you ! 😀
$640 million in 1988 is equivalent to$1.628 BILLION dollars today :D
Carl is played by Alexander Gudunov. He was a premere dancer in the bolshoi ballet in Russia. He defected to the U S and danced here and then started acting.
The actor who plays the hacker, that kung-fu kicks the computer/security system died not long ago.
RIP
Clarence Gilyard Jr.
(1955-2022)
I HAD NO IDEA CONRAD DIED!
Oh, man... what a bummer! :(
It's not Christmas until Hans falls from the Nakatomi Tower!
Lol John was a machine in his fight with Karl. He was feeding him punches and when he's taunting him about how he killed his brother that was so vicious LOL
An excellent reaction, Dawn. Number 2 'Die Hard 2, Die Harder' is also set at Christmas so, you could do that one too.
18:18 - I love how they give him a can of Coke because they misunderstood him when he requested Coke (cocaine).
I love that the reporters are better investigators than the cops. Or at least that lady was, Dick Thornburg's assistant. She needs a raise.
Dawn is right. Christmas is indeed all about fighting.
Yes Die Hard is a Christmas movie. McClane is a Santa Special Agent assigned to remove the extra extra very naughty from Santa's Christmas presents list. 🎅
McClane even received stealth training from Santa's elves.
Haha! Now that would be a Christmas movie.
When people question the validity of this movie being a Christmas movie, I always think about It’s a Wonderful Life. Great movie but it doesn’t have a Christmas theme and it barely takes place during Christmas, yet it’s one of the greatest Christmas films of all time.
The most shocking part of this movie? 9:36
100 % Christmas movie right down to the paper money snowing from the building at the end.
The guy playing Hanz was afraid of heights so the director agreed to make the fall out of the window only about 15 feet. Then changed his mind right before because he thought it would be more real. He didn't tell the actor though so the fear in his face was authentic.
The clue that John knew it was Hans is the camera angle when they are talking to each other. It’s known as a Dutch angle and is used to show distrust.
Noticing the poster was actually smart. It was a navigation landmark within that floor of the building.
If Home Alone is a Christmas movie then Die Hard is.
Came for the reaction to a CLASSIC movie (best Christmas movie ever), stayed for the cute lil Santa hat at a jaunty angle!
It’s a wonderful life is better Christmas movie and so is home alone
Definitely a Christmas movie, cowboy! 🎄 Yipee Kay Yay!
Back in the 1980s normal bank accounts got 10% interest, term deposits were 15% at least in Australia... so getting 20% interest on multi million dollar investments is easy to understand....
If you want to know who Grace Kelly (my favourite actress) is check out her three Hitchcock movies Dial M For Murder, Rear Window and To Catch a Thief or High Noon, The Country Girl or High Society. She later became Princess Grace of Monaco.
It's not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber fall from The Nakatomi Tower. Such a good film. So many quotable lines. You caught most of them in the reaction, but I do love 'I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. Mcclane' and 'You ask for miracles Theo, I give you the F.- B.-I .' Rickman is mesmeric in his line deliveries.
Die Hard is my absolute favourite Christmas film, followed closely by Gremlins.
Guns a blazing is not a Christmas Movie
Die Hard, Lethal Weapon, Gremlins, Trancers
A Heartwarming Christmas Movie
Lethal Weapon is also a Christmas movie. It opens with 'snow' in a Christmas tree lot, and then follows a widower as he tries to deal with the offscreen loss of his wife during the holidays.
One wholesome family Christmas movie!
I remember being 9 years old when my older brother brought this movie home for the family to watch.. they weren't sure if I was ready for it but we watched anyway and I'll cherish it for the rest of my life. My first REAL movie.
"He's a good 'bad guy'." - You just hit on about 50% of the reason this movie is SO beloved as to spawn an entire franchise!
The other 50% is John McClaine (Bruce Willis) is such a likeable 'good guy'!
Well? That and just about everything else about the movie too, that is. lol
"Well? He IS still a 'Man' after all." - LMAO. Also, the 'blue collar worker' having a poster of a pin-up girl or Centerfold, not only works as a trope, but it serves as a subtle 'landmark' to give the audience a reference point as to WHERE he is when he is running around.
Also, also, being a Gen X-er, I KNOW that every decade had its good & bad but seeing a sign for $0.74 / gallon of gas (In California) makes me SO nostalgic for the 80s!
7:59 Simply one of the finest line deliveries in Cinematic History.
Dawn: "The German's have lovely blond hair."
I believe Hitler had a thing about that too!🤣
It is a Christmas Movie. The movies primary setting is at an Office Christmas Party, the first guy Bruce Willis kills he dresses up in a Santa hat and writes a message on him now I have a machine gun Ho Ho Ho, and also Christmas music played at various moments of the movie.
Fun fact: Frank Sinatra originally had a contract giving him first dibs on Bruce Willis' role, he sensibly declined the role as he was in his 70s!
Never seen this as a Christmas film. Just an action movie during Christmas. Also, it cane out in the cinemas in the summer
The vast majority of It's a Wonderful Life neither takes place nor references Christmas. Miracle on 34th Street was released in May.
"It's not Christmas until I see Hans Gruber falling out of the Nakatomi Tower."
I'm so glad that we got to watch you enjoy this movie so much!
Welcome to the party pal
“Go and try so you get shot” -wonderful😀
Bruce Willis said it's not a Christmas movie and so did the film's cinematographer, Jan de Bont. Its primary genre is “action”. Die Hard does not move beyond action; it does not employ Christmas themes or storylines. It is not primarily about or to do with Christmas. If you took Christmas completely out of the movie, it could, with minimal editing, still be made and be more or less the same movie. Die Hard is, therefore, an action film that just happens to take place on Christmas. It is not a Christmas movie.
I've heard this a few times. The 80s were full of bigger-than-life heroic action stars- Arnold Shwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude VanDamme, etc. For Die Hard, the studio wanted more of any everyman character; someone with faults and self-doubts, who makes mistakes, a bit of a smart-ass but still likable, who just happens to find himself in an impossible situation.
Also, while most of McClane's wise cracks were scripted, Bruce Willis did throw in a couple ad-libs. The director liked them enough to leave them in and for Die Hard 2, he told Willis to go ahead and ad-lib as much as he wanted.
Not like nower days films.
Its not Christmas until I hear the pogues, fairytale of new York and until I see hans grubber fall from the nokatomi tower.
Now I'm in the Christmas spirit...
It was at Christmas time, it had nothing to do with Christmas, someone said Merry Christmas in it, and there was a Christmas carol at the end. If It's a Wonderful Life can be called a Christmas movie, so can Die Hard.
Best Christmas Movie EVER!
I've been barefoot most of the time since 1977. I have learned to walk through broken safety glass (windows) without damage to the feet. I can sprint on asphalt barefoot however concrete is a no-no. On my street there is always broken glass. This neighborhood doesn't know how to use a broom and dustpan.
John saw what Hans looked like when he was hiding above the elevator.
Fun fact: Bruce Willis was born March 19, 1955 (age 67)
Idar-Oberstein, West Germany full blooded German .
7:01 You must be _that_ person who ruins everything in a 'movie watch' with your ridiculously accurate predictions! 🤣🤣🤣
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Oh this is a GREAT CHRISTMAS MOVIE!🍿 😊🎄
Die Hard
AKA: John McClane saves Christmas
You can have an action-packed Christmas movie. Sure. There's nothing contradictory about that. And in fact, there's _plenty_ of Christmas in this movie. I mean it's set at Christmas time, there's Christmas music on its soundtrack and its events take place during a _Christmas_ party. And the producers _say_ it's a _Christmas_ movie.
The _weird_ part was that it came out in July. Yeah, _that_ was a weird decision.
I just freaking love your reaction to this! You captured my reaction first seeing it when it came out. Yes, it is a Christmas movie, and always the first one that comes to mind for me. Keep up the reactions! Great channel.
Awesome Christmas movie and I watch this every year. To anyone thinking Die Hard isn't a Christmas movie, you know who you are :P Gremlins and Lethal Weapon are Christmas movies too. 'I am going to count to three. There will be not be a four' might be the most chilling line in modern public cinema
"So he won't be joining us... for the rest of his life." is such a cold line, but the way Rickman delivers it is hilarious.
nope. Happens at Christmas time with no relevance to it. Could have happened in summer with minor change in setting for the office party and zero change to the story.
@@hebber1961 yes it could....and a wonderful life could be set in June and the guy was just deranged all along but that's not the case
@@neilburgess9652 Sure, you could take out the Christmas element from Wonderful Life but that whole last section wouldn't have the same impact it did with the message of coming together, singing and spirit of the season. It adds to the wholesome theme.
Not so with this movie. Doesn't make it any less of a movie as it would with IaWL. I'm sure you'll disagree just for the sake of it.
Not sure why people have to pry this into Christmas by making the claim on every single comment section. It's just weird.
The bit in the elevator shaft where he uses his gun to lower himself down to the next level was a happy accident. The stunt man actually lost his grip (didn't make it to the adjacent vent opening, which was the original plan for the shot) and fell (landing on an air pad no doubt) but the director worked it into the story and filmed Bruce Willis catching himself on the next level down.
Everyone knows its not Christmas until Hans Gruber falls off the Nakatomi Plaza...